Personal Narrative Essay: Why In Hong Kong

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Within my internship, I was required to hand in an advocacy essay, a book report and a report. At the beginning of the internship, I did not have a clue about what I was going to write in these tasks and I was wondering if my supervisor would assign me topics I needed to write and book I needed to read. However, when I talked to my supervisor, she said that I could do any topics and read any books I liked, as long as it was related to business of the organization. I realized I could not act like a primary student that I could not wait for others to assign me task. It was a good timing for me to review what I did in the past one and a half months and searched for any topics interested. Finally, the topic of my advocacy essay was decided: "Why …show more content…

Another problem happens in Taiwan is that poor students, who need to afford their own tuition fee, lack of cultural capital, they fail to afford any extra fee for attending tutorial school or having extra-curricular activities. Therefore, they have lower chances to enter those well-known schools(usually public universities) are low. I think that Hong Kong also had similar situation that through examination system, for students who have time to revise and have money to go to tutorial school have a higher chance to enter university. However, since most universities provide both UGC-funded degree and non UGC-funded degree, difference appears in types of degree student are admitted to, not the university itself, however, in my opinion, the situation is the similar since most students are admitted to UGC-funded degree by public examination, many of them attended different tutorial courses when they were in high school, which required a large amount of money. So, for students from low-income family are hard to be admitted to UGC-funded degree unless they are really clever and

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